as 


UNIVERSITY  OF  CALIFORNIA  agricultural  Experiment  Station 

COLLEGE    OF  AGRICULTURE  E.  J .  WlCKSON,  Director 

BERKELEY,   CALIFORNIA 


CIRCULAR  No.  40 

(October,  1908) 


CALIFORNIA 

STATE   FARMERS'   INSTITUTE 

AT  THE 

UNIVERSITY    FARM 

DAVIS 

THURSDAY,  FRIDAY,  AND  SATURDAY, 
OCTOBER  8,  9,  AND    10,   1908. 


This  Institute  is  the  second  to  be  held  at  the  University  Farm  at 
Davis.  The  first  of  this  series  of  Institutes,  which  convened  a  year 
ago  at  the  same  place,  had  as  its  aim  and  object  the  extension  of 
popular  knowledge  concerning  the  work  of  the  College  of  Agriculture 
of  the  University  of  California  and  of  the  University  Farm.  The 
present  Institute  has  much  the  same  object  in  view. 

The  interest  of  the  people  of  the  State  in  Agricultural  education 
becomes  each  year  more  intense  and  these  State  Institutes  serve  the 
purpose,  in  a  broad  way,  of  allowing  a  good  opportunity  for  those 
most  interested  to  see  and  hear  just  what  is  being  done  in  the  way 
of  advancing  the  Agricultural  interests  of  California. 

The  schedule  of  exercises  provided  for  the  present  Institute,  as 
is  shown  upon  the  following  pages,  allows  those  in  attendance  to 
participate  in  discussions  of  great  importance  to  the  advancement  of 
the  agriculture  of  the  State  and  the  prosperity  of  those  connected 
therewith. 


The  Question  Box  will  also  be  continually  open  and  will  afford 
opportunity  for  the  introduction  of  other  important  topics.  Free  dis- 
cussion will  follow  the  formal  addresses  so  xfar  as  time  will  permit. 

Thursday  Morning,  October  8,  10:00  o'clock. 

Opening  of  Institute. 


Addresses  of  Welcome. 


Responses. 


Address. 


For  the  University  Farm,  Prof.  Leroy 
Anderson,  Superintendent  Uni- 
versity Farm  Schools. 

For  the  town  of  Davis,  Mr.  George  W. 
Pierce,  Davis. 

Mr.  F.  H.  Babb,  Lecturer  State 
Grange,  San  Jose. 

Hon.  J.  I.  McConnell,  Woodland. 

Hon.    B.    F.    Rush,    President    State 

Board  of  Agriculture,  Suisun. 
Hon.  A.  E.  Boynton,  Oroville. 
Hon.  Ellwood  Cooper,  Santa  Barbara. 

Hon.  Marshall  Diggs,  President  Sac- 
ramento Valley  Development  As- 
sociation, Sacramento. 

President  Benj.  Ide  Wheeler,  Uni- 
versity of  California,  Berkeley. 


Thursday  Afternoon,  October  8,  1:30  o'clock. 

Addresses.  Hon.  Peter  J.  Shields,  Superior  Judge, 

Sacramento  County,  Sacramento. 

Director    C.    F.   Curtiss,    College    of 
Agriculture,  Ames,  Iowa. 

Director    E.  J.  Wickson,    College    of 
Agriculture,  Berkeley. 


Thursday  Evening,  October  8,  7:30  o'clock. 


Resume  of  the  Work  of  the 
State  Food  and  Drug 
Laboratory. 

The  Argentine  Ant  in  Cali- 
fornia. 


Prof.  M.  E.  Jaffa,  Agricultural  Experi- 
ment Station,  Berkeley. 

Prof.  C.  W.  Woodworth,  Agricultural 
Experiment  Station,  Berkeley. 


Friday  Morning, 

Animal  Industry  Session. 
Address. 


Work  of  the  State  Dairy 
Bureau. 

Control  and  Eradication  of 
Infectious  Diseases  of 
Live  Stock. 

Address. 


Friday  Afternoon, 
A  Talk  on  Good  Roads. 

Dry  Land  Farming. 


Pedigreed     Vines    and    the 
Young  Vineyard. 


October  9,  9:30  o'clock. 


Prof.  E.  W.  Major,  Agricultural  Ex- 
periment Station,  Berkeley. 

Mr.  W.  H.  Saylor,  Secretary  State 
Dairy  Bureau. 

Dr.  Charles  Keane,  State  Veterin- 
arian. 

Director  C.  F.  Curtiss,  College  of 
Agriculture,  Ames,  Iowa. 

October  9,  1:30  o'clock.. 

Hon.  J.  M.  Eddy,  Secretary  California 
Good  Roads  Association. 

Mr.  Arthur  R.  Briggs,  President  Cali- 
fornia State  Board  of  Trade,  San 
Francisco. 

Mrs.  M.  E.  Sherman,  Minnewawa 
Vineyard,  Fresno. 


Friday  Evening,  October  9,  7:30  o'clock. 

Cereal  Improvements.  Mr.  A.  G.  Gaumnitz,  Cereal  Investi- 

gations, University  Farm,  Davis. 

The  Sugar  Beet.  Prof.  G.  W.  Shaw,  Agricultural    Ex- 

periment Station,  Berkeley. 

Relation   of   the    University 

Farm  to  the  Horticulture     Prof.  W.  T.  Clarke,  Agricultural   Ex- 
of  the  State.  periment  Station,  Berkeley. 


Saturday  Morning,  October  10,  9:30  o'cloc%. 

The   Outlook    for   the    Pear    Prof.  Ralph  E.  Smith,  Southern  Cali- 
Industry  with  Reference  fornia     Pathological    Laboratory, 

to  Pear  Blight.  Whittier,  Cal. 

Irrigation  and  the  Develop- 
ment of  our  Great   Val-     Prof.  S.  Fortier,  Irrigation  Investiga- 
tes, tions,  U.  S.  Dept.  of  Agriculture. 

Forestry  Problems.  G.   B.    Lull,    State    Forester,    Sacra- 

mento. 


Saturday  Afternoon,  October  10,  1:30  o'cloc%. 

Reports  of  Committees. 

Closing  Exercises.  Prof.  W.  T.  Clarke,  College  of  Agri- 

culture, Berkeley. 

The  public  is  cordially  invited  to  attend  these  sessions  and 
arrangements  have  been  made  so  that  the  personal  comfort  of 
visitors  will  be  well  looked  after.  The  ladies  of  Davis  will  serve 
lunch  on  the  grounds  of  the  University  Farm  each  day  of  the 
Institute. 

Transportation  by  the  Southern  Pacific  to  and  from  Davis  can  be 
secured  at  one  and  one-third  rates  for  the  round  trip  on  the  certificate 
plan.     Take  receipt  from  agent  when  purchasing  ticket. 

W.  T.  Clarke, 

Superintendent  University  Extension  in  Agriculture. 


UNIVERSITY   OF  CALIFORNIA, 

Berkeley,  September  25,   1908. 


